Charles Rollin Keyes

For the Iowa archaeologist, see Charles Reuben Keyes.

Charles Rollin Keyes (1864–1942) was a U.S. geologist and in 1918 was a U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1887. He worked for the United States Geological Survey. He earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1892. He served as Assistant State Geologist of Iowa, Director of the Bureau of Geology and Mines of Missouri and was president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro.[1] Keyes was also an avid ornithologist, publishing the first detailed listing of birds in Iowa in 1889. In 1918 he was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Iowa, losing to William S. Kenyon.

Selected works by Keyes

References

  1. Gue, Benjamin (1903). History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol 4. p. 154.


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